SEPTEMBER 18. 1953

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1; you were to ask her it she mum so back to teaching she'd Irobabiy look very serious and say. Slowly, "No-I wasn't very happy M 3 teacher," then. with I shy smug, ilbesides, I'm quite content ith this work." And you WOW :31".-ve her. too, if you watched Mrwoman Thelma Cook going :- hout her work as a Professional Phomgrapher at RCAFI Station Gunimerslde. for she has a voca- Tloll that extends into her.after duty hours as a hobby. Picture- ,,,k,'ng, developing. enlarging. print- ing...TheY are the tasks that she enjoys in a trade she learned Iin the RCAF. -I-M, )eai's ago Thelma was ieiirliiiig at the same school at Cape wolfe, P.E.I., that she her- sen attended a few short years more, Life was easy with long HBIISS along the shoreline, church ..,.;..;s and a happy family life iiilli her mother, father, brother and three sisters. On Saturdays ,,u:l. help her father prepare for his daily trip on the straits where mp cod and lobster yielded to H10 expcl'l9il(:'e of fisherman Fulton rook Later. she would help her lliUiii('l' with the baking and house- xleaiiing. And so the year passed p',e,a5aflIIy, if not purposefully, be- iwemi classroom and home. wpcn the school year ended in ms) Thelma came to Sunimerside RIILI iislted the recruiting centre tr find out what the Air Force has like." When she returned that pyfning to Cape Wolfe it was to ma good-bye to folks and friends more leaving for st. John's, Que- lypv where she received her basic ".'-iillril as an Air Woman. "The thing that impressed me, and . does, was the eomradesnip a-

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letter from home with Thelma and Yvonne Mailloux, Windsor, Ontario.

-iinng the girls. I wasn't homesick 7u: I did min home those first few days. I guem we all did and that drew us together."

The days flow by at the Man- wing Depot. days filled with ice- nires. drill. sports and parades. Thelma. admits that she didn't take in parades too well. "At home if I got tired of doing A Job I Just stopped. That's not done on parade."

The biggest day of all at St, .IPaii'S came when her class attend- -rl the Personnel Selection Centre. Althougyi the average recruit states A preference for a certain trade,

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of what the trade of his choice mually entails. By means of in-

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terviews and tests each Airman and Airwoman is selected for train- ing In a trade commensurate with his education and aptitude. And so it was that a school teacher from Cape Wolfe was selected to attend the R. C. A. F5 School of

Photography a t C am p Borden? Ont. ' Before attending the course

Thelma was posted to Greenwood, NS., for contact training in the Photographic Section. At the big Maritime base she had the oppox. tunity to see what her future trade would require of her and to gain some practical knowledge of the before ”hittInag the books" at school. Her t.ralr.i:'.g at Camp Borden was intense. III-'.El'ESIlllg and pne- Glsss roqm l tures were 10110WDd by practical picture tak- ing sessions and later, developing

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and printing. when she graduated. Airwoman Thelma Cook was rpm- iessionel photographer and not just a little keen to be transferred to a station where her know-how could be used daily. That station is as is the case wherever RCAF commitments permit, close to her home. Because she had an Is- landers love for her home Pro- vince she wasn't disappointed "at not being transferred to far away places. so station Summerstds. less than fifty miles from her Iiorne

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and family. is truly her "home sta- tion."

For a photographer, whose dut- iep may require her to photograph some Island area from 12,000 feet in the morning and capture on film the rather prosaic sight of a uornout camshaft in the after- noon. no two days are alike. Nor- mslly, however, they start at 'I am. when. without benefit of alarm clock she wakes up and turns on the radio. "It's a good thing we sleep two to a mom or there might be some hollering from those who dont like western music because my roommate and I always listen to A1 Niekelson from CJRW."

Breakfast, the quietest meal of the day, is aiways' over by 7:45 and the working day for AW Cook begins shotrtu afterwalrds. With only a small staff in the photo section work doesn't always end -for dinner or even for supper. For Thelma. whose hobby is photo- graphy, the hours of work seldom matter as she spends many of her evenings working on her own camera projectls. At least ciiice during the evening she can be found engaging in something in- tinely iemiiiine.....a gossip fest whh girls from other sections.

A quiet girl. she doesn't accept da.tes....therels s boy in Green- wood who wrltes every day and a return letter also takes time each evening. The station theatre and sporfs activities receive some of her attention, but not too much. t'I'he photo album is never up to date and if a photographer can't keep her own album in first class shape, who can?

Willi home so close every free week-end is spent at Cape Wollu with the family that is so proud of its own girl in blue. 50 the Bat- urdays and Sundays haven't clumgecI...'I'he little white motor boat still goes out to the fishing grounds, the neighbors drop in for a chat, church on Sunday morn- ing and her mother still bakes those wonderful chocolate takes... the only thing she misses iii the Air Force.

If you ask this girl who joined the Air Force ”to see what i: was like" what it really is like, she'll! tell you, "I like it." I

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Aerial photography is one of the many assignirients handled by Airwoman Thelma Cook. former school ieacheij at Cape Wolfe, P.E.I. shown above leaving an Expeditor Aircraft at R.C.A.F. Station, Siiiiinieigide.

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